Spelling

11 November 2011

This week’s spellings are all two words that are joined together with a hyphen to form one adjective.

All the adjectives fit with our current literacy learning: promotional writing.  Look out for words like these in adverts and leaflets.

As part of Takeover Day, the children contributed some of these words.

11 November 2011

This week, we’re learning to spell words with the ‘ow’ and ‘ou’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 18 November.

11 November 2011

This week’s spellings are words with ‘ea’ – this creates a long ‘eee’ sound when you say the word (unlike a short ‘e’ such as in ‘tell’ or ‘incredible’).

Your child will be tested on Friday 18 November 2011.

• speak
• steal
• cream
• dream
• team
• mean
• please
• ear
• near
• easy

11 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix ‘un’ or ‘dis’. Both these prefixes mean ‘not’. Children should practise all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten. They will be tested on Friday 18 November.

04 November 2011

This week’s spellings are all appealing adjectives that advertisers would use to tempt customers.

04 November 2011

This week, the spellings are all adjectives that we will be using in our promotional writing next week.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 November. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

04 November 2011

This week, we are learning to spell words with the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sound.

These will be tested on Friday 11 November.

04 November 2011

This week’s spellings are ‘ly’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 11 November 2011. It’d be great if the children could think of some of their own ‘ly’ words too!

• bravely
• proudly
• loudly
• sadly
• wisely
• quietly
• shyly
• weakly
• sweetly
• kindly

It’s the holiday…

…so there are no homework or spellings.

However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.

There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday.  Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…

• take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
• on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
• and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)

School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).

14 October 2011

This week, we are learning to spell words with the ‘ay’ sound.

These will be tested on Friday 21 October.